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Secretary General, to all the members of the League of Nations
and non-member states referred to in article 27,1 a statement con¬
taining the estimates for each country or territory, and, so far as
the Supervisory Body may consider necessary, an account of any
explanations given or required in accordance with paragraph 6
above, and any observations which the Supervisory Body may
desire to make in respect of any estimate or explanation, or request
for an explanation.
“8. Any supplementary estimate sent to the Permanent Central
Board in the course of the year shall be dealt with without delay
by the Supervisory Body in accordance with the procedure specified
in paragraphs 6 and 7 above.”
The provisions restricting manufacture and imports by reference
to the estimates follow in articles 6 and 9 and in article 12.
The new powers of control given to the Permanent Central
Board are contained in article 14. The import authorisations to
which the article refers are authorisations given under the system
set up by Chapter 5 of the 1925 convention. This (broadly speaking)
requires that each import of substances to which the convention
applies shall be covered by an import authorisation and that the
exporting country shall allow the export only under an export
authorisation given on production of a certificate of authorisation
of importation given by the importing country’s authorities.
“Article 14- 1- Any government which has issued an authorisa¬
tion for the export of any of the drugs which are or may be included
in Group I to any country or territory to which neither this conven¬
tion nor the Geneva convention (i.e. the 1925 convention) applies
shall immediately notify the Permanent Central Board of the issue
of the authorisation; provided that, if the request for export amounts
to 5 kilogrammes or more, the authorisation shall not be issued
until the government has ascertained from the Permanent Central
Board that the export will not cause the estimates for the importing
country or territory to be exceeded. If the Permanent Central
Board sends a notification that such an excess would be caused,
the government will not authorise the export of any amount which
would have that effect.
2. If it appears from the import and export returns made to the
Permanent Central Board or from the notifications made to the
1 i.e., the States represented at the 1931 conference and those invited by the
Council to become parties to the convention.